Events

Clinical Teaching Series: Effective Feedback in Clinical Setting A 60-minute workshop for Columbia Faculty.  Feedback is essential for growth and learning. Students expect to receive feedback, yet it can be challenging for faculty to give feedback in the clinical context while time is limited, interactions are brief, and the focus is on patient care. In this 60-minute session, you will explore elements of effective feedback and work on enhancing your feedback skills through an activity in which you will evaluate and rephrase feedback statements.  After attending this workshop, participants should be able to:  Identify when effective feedback should be given Evaluate what content should be included in clinical feedback Select different models for feedback delivery. Unable to join us for this workshop? Explore the on-demand resource Effective Feedback in Clinical Education. You can also schedule a consultation, or find other workshops on our CTL events calendar. Columbia University makes every effort to accommodate individuals with disabilities. Contact ColumbiaCTL@columbia.edu or 212.854.1692 for accommodations. This event may be photographed. Note, if this is an online event, CTL staff may take screenshots. For concerns, contact ColumbiaCTL@columbia.edu.

About the Levin Lecture Series: During the Fall and Spring semesters, the Department of Biostatistics holds seminars, called the Levin Lecture Series, on a wide variety of topics which are of interest to both students and faculty. The speakers are occasionally departmental faculty members themselves but very often are invited guests who spend the day of their seminar discussing their research with Biostatistics faculty and students. Lectures are in-person only unless marked otherwise.   Tingting Zhang, PhD Professor University of Pittsburgh, Department of Statistics Analysis of Functional Brain Network Changes from Childhood to Old Age: A Study Using HCP-D, HCP-YA, and HCP-A Datasets Abstract:  We present a new clustering-enabled regression approach to investigate how functional connectivity (FC) of the entire brain changes from childhood to old age. By applying this method to resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging data aggregated from three Human Connectome Project studies, we cluster brain regions that undergo identical age-related changes in FC and reveal diverse patterns of these changes for different region clusters. While most brain connections between pairs of regions show minimal yet statistically significant FC changes with age, only a tiny proportion of connections exhibit practically significant age-related changes in FC. Among these connections, FC between region clusters from the same functional network tends to decrease over time, whereas FC between region clusters from different networks demonstrates various patterns of age-related changes. Moreover, our research uncovers sex-specific trends in FC changes. Females show much higher FC mainly within the default mode network, whereas males display higher FC across several more brain networks. These findings underscore the complexity and heterogeneity of FC changes in the brain throughout the lifespan.

The Weinberg Family Cerebral Palsy Center at Columbia Univerisity is excited to support Opera Praktikos on their musical drama There Will Be Cake! this December. Founded by Greg Moomjy, a founding member of the WFCPC's Patient Family Advisory Council (PFAC), Opera Praktikos is New York City's first disability-affirmative opera company, with a mission to make opera an inclusive and accessible art form for audiences and artists alike. There Will Be Cake! is a sweet, site-specific musical drama pairing two mono-operas about memory and food, featuring words of wisdom from Julia Child herself! One short opera bakes us a chocolate cake, the other spreads joy! Mixed together, these mono-operas make for one hour of a delicious and joy-filled community event…and yes, there WILL be cake! The performances will be held at Asylum NYC, an accessible venue in Manhattan. There will be three matinee performances at 1:30pm on December 12th, 13th, and 14th, 2024. General Admission is $35. OPrak's misison is to make opera accessible and will offer a Pay What You Can (PWYC) option of $17 or $10. Seating is flexible and every ticket gives equal access to the performance, regardless of how much you choose to pay. Saturday December 14th will include a Livestream Broadcast option. This is ephemeral, live-viewing-one-time-only. You are there with the rest of the audience, and you are home. The show broadcasts at 1:30pm EST. It will be taken off line after the show and not available for later viewing. TIcket structure is the same as above; Livestream Broadcast $35 with a PWYC option of $17 or $10.  For tickets: https://asylumtix.com/asylumnyc/CAKE  

This is a monthly group for anyone with a primary brain tumor. Patients are invited to share their honest thoughts and feelings related to living life with a brain tumor. Discussion topics have included child or grandchild rearing while on treatment, Medicare enrollment, managing treatment-related side effects such as “chemo brain,” and coping with one’s diagnosis. Registration is required to attend (click here to register). After completing the registration form, a social worker will be in touch with you to complete the registration process. You will then receive a Zoom link for the next upcoming session.